MOUNT ABRAM
Franklin County - Maine Forestry District
April 29, 1924: "Quite a little bit of work has been done by the State forestry department in preparing for the 1924 season.
Steel was bought for building the following lookout stations: 12-foot tower on Mt. Abram, Mt. Abram Township, Franklin county." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
Steel was bought for building the following lookout stations: 12-foot tower on Mt. Abram, Mt. Abram Township, Franklin county." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
July 22, 1924: "Acting Forest Commissioner Neil L. Violette has just returned from a trip to Kingfield, where he has been inspecting the work of erecting a 15-foot lookout tower on Mount Abram. The tower is of steel and is to be used by the fire wardens. Because of the lack of trees on this mountain the tower is a very short one. While Mr. Violette also inspected the work of installing a seven-mile telephone line and a camp for the watchman.
The construction crew which is now working on this tower at Mount Abram has finished several other towers and has two or three more to erect." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
December 23, 1925: "Word has been received by State Forest Commissioner Neil L. Violette from Chief Fire Warden A. R. Henderson of Kingfield that the lookout station on Mt. Abraham in Franklin county has recently been blown down and wrecked.
Chief Warden Henderson is passing the winter in Florida, but upon receipt of the information from his watchman he immediately reported the matter to Commissioner Violette. The tower was loaded with ice and the strain caused the bolt on one of the four supporting cables to give way and the tower crash to the earth. This was one of the modern steel towers erected in 1924.
These towers are built to withstand a considerable sweep of wind and only one has previously blown over, that being the tower on Bigelow Mountain which was wrecked a few years ago." (Daily Kennebec Journal)
May 25, 1935: "20-foot tower" (The Lewiston Daily Sun)
May 12, 1949: "Preparing for his seasonal work as fire watch on Mount Abram, Cecil Harris of New Sharon, discovered while stringing a telephone line from his camp to the tower Tuesday that the structure had been destroyed. Harris found the site a mass of ruins, the remains of a fire believed caused by lightning during a recent shower. Stringing og the telephone will continue following erection of a new tower." (Portland Press Herald)